With precisely two days left to go until the beginning of free agency, the NBA Player's Association finally published the new Collective Bargaining Agreement on Wednesday afternoon. The broad terms of the agreement were finalised some weeks ago, yet any 676-page document written in legalese needs plenty of billable hours logged to go through it with a toothcomb, even if doing so gives the players, agents and teams whose conduct it legislates absolutely minimal time to toothcomb it themselves.

At the time of the agreement's announcement, a term sheet was distributed that summarised the major changes that would be forthcoming. Those include the new dual-layered "apron" (a vehicle designed to prohibit excessive spending by one team), the creation of a new exception specifically for second-round draft picks, and the removal of testing for marijuana. The fact that even the summary document is nine pages long speaks to how much has changed.

In a full 676-page document, though, even a nine-pager lacks for adequate detail. From my own ongoing toothcombing of the new 2023 NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement, here is the second post in a series that documents some of the lesser-reported (or hitherto entirely unreported) changes. (Click here for parts one and two.)

Further instalments may follow in this series as the document is further dissected and more is unearthed.